Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad comes up for air

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Mahmood Mattan

Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad comes up for air"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." The New York Times Book Review Award winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff but it's all true. The four spies were young, Jewish, and born in Arab countries. In 1948, at the outbreak of war in Palestine, they went undercover in Beirut, spending two